Danish Cinnamon Bread - Kanelbroed

Baking Danish Cinnamon bread on a Sunday morning just makes the house smell good.  We always enjoy eating the delicious freshly baked cinnamon bread for breakfast or during the day.  Plus we spread on some butter and eat it with a cup of coffee.  Biting into a slice of baked bread is crunchy on the outside and soft and sweet in the middle, and then there is plenty of icing on top.  The bread usually does not last long on the weekend. But that is ok! I am happy to make it the following weekend!

See Karen Grete make this 

delicious cinnamon bread

Ingredients:

• 1 cup milk 
• 4 tbsp butter
• 1 pkg yeast
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 - 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp cardamom
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Filling:

• 8 tbsp soft butter
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
• 1/3 cup sugar

Icing:

• 1/4 cup boiling water
• 1 3/4 cup confectionary sugar

Kitchen Utensils

• 1 loaf pan
• Mixer
• Knife
• Rolling pin
• Saucepan

Instruction:

Add some of the milk and the butter to melt in a pan on the stove. Remove it from the stove and add the cold milk till finger warm.  Then add the yeast and stir well to get it dissolved. 

Mix the flour with the spices, sugar and salt.  Add the remaining milk as well as the egg to the yeast mixture and add 2/3 of the flour mixture. Stir it into a uniform dough, and knead the dough by hand or in a mixer. Finally Knead it with the remaining flour on a floured surface. Let the dough rise in a warm place covered with a cloth for approx. 30 minutes.

Filling: Mix the sugar with cinnamon and stir in the soft butter.

Roll out the dough on a floured surface to approx. 1F long and 1/2F wide. Spread the cinnamon/butter mixture on the dough. Roll it up and seal the seam of the log gently with your fingers. Place the bread in a buttered/floured pan, cover it with a towel, and let it rise till double in size.

Slice the top of the bread and place it in the oven at 400F. Let it bake for approx. 25-30 minutes. 

Take the bread out of the oven and tap it on the bottom. If it sounds hollow, it is finished baking.

Leave the bread in the pan for approx. 5 min. and then let it cool down on a rack.   Let cool completely before slicing, or the bread will fall apart.

Stir the powdered sugar with a little water to a glaze and pour it over the bread.  

Finally slice the bread and spread it with butter.

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